Greetings, jss pop! > I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked > the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. > However I then tried:-
> find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f argument) > This ran, found a few .c files but continued running for a very long > time – longer that expected. Even from / I though it seem too long. > Many files appeared seemingly (from the displayed path name) as > “registry-type” (UUID’s in pathname) under /proc. The machine > eventually crashed! I do mean the machine itself btw and not just > cygwin. That's because... Cygwin implements *NIX way of thinking about your system. The root ("/") filesystem contains EVERYTHING: files, registry, running process pool... If you want to avoid such collisions, either exclude /proc from search path, or explicitly specify more narrow search path. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 10.02.2012, <18:47> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple